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Race, Religion, And The Pulpit - Rev. Robert L. Bradby And The Making Of Urban Detroit

by Julia Marie Robinson Moore

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 The history of one manâ€™s work during the Great Migration to create a cultural cornerstone for Detroitâ€™s African American community. Robinson highlights Rev. Bradbyâ€™s efforts as an activist and ""race leader"" by examining the role the minister played in high-profile events, such as the organizing of Detroitâ€™s NAACP chapter.
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Detroit'S Wayne State University Law School - Future Leaders In The Legal Community

by Alan Schenk

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 Most histories of law schools focus on the notable deans and professors, and the changes in curricula over time. In Detroit's Wayne State University Law School: Future Leaders in the Legal Community, Alan Schenk highlights the students and their influence on the school's development, character, and employment opportunities.
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Angels In The Architecture - A Photographic Elegy To An American Asylum

by Heidi Johnson

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 Thomas Story Kirkbride's asylum designs integrated beauty and nature as a method to treat patients. The Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan, was one of the last of nearly 200 such architecturally intriguing asylums. This is a photographic study of this institution's 100-year history.
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Blood Passion - The Ludlow Massacre And Class War In The American West, First Paperback Edition

by Scott Martelle

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 Explores the tale of political corruption and repression and immigrants' struggles against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity, and class.
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Beyond Refuge In Arab Detroit

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Dispatches From The Avant-Garage - The Alternative Press

by Rebecca Kosick

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Albert Kahn'S Daylight - An Architect Reconsidered

by Chris Meister

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Riding The Roller Coaster - A History Of The Chrysler Corporation

by Charles K. Hyde

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Arsenal Of Democracy - The American Automobile Industry In World War Ii

by Charles K. Hyde

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Coach Of Champions - D.L. Holmes And The Making Of Detroit'S Track Stars

by David L. Holmes Jr. e Keith D. Wunderlich

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Motor City Boomer - The Car Culture That Defined A Generation

by Larry D. Lankton

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Welcome To Detroitland - Stories From The Motor City'S Captivating Past

by Richard Bak

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Brewed In Detroit - Breweries And Beers Since 1830

by Peter H. Blum

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The Forgotten Iron King Of The Great Lakes - Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875

by Michael W. Nagle

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 Eber Brock Ward (1811â€"1875) began his career as a cabin boy on his uncleâ€™s sailing vessels, but when he died in 1875, he was the wealthiest man in Michigan. His business activities were vast and innovative. Ward was engaged in the steamboat, railroad, lumber, mining, and iron and steel industries.
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Picnics And Porcupines - Eating In The Wilderness Of Michigan'S Upper Peninsula

by Candice Goucher

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 Journey to the edges of the Great Lakes in this engaging history of picnicking, wilderness, and foodways. This stunning venture into the American picnic explores how innovation, exploitation, and the changing wilderness of Michiganâ€™s Upper Peninsula have shaped the experience of eating outdoors.
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Rust Belt Reporter - A Memoir

by John Gallagher

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Hollowed Ground - Copper Mining And Community Building On Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s

by Larry Lankton

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 Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s. This title tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior - native copper mining, and copper sulfide mining.
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Remapping The Humanities - Identity, Community, Memory, (Post)Modernity

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 Brings together essays that illustrate the richness of public conversations developed in interdisciplinary humanities centers. This volume is divided into four thematic sections: Identity and Community, Remembering and Forgetting, Nationalism and Globalism, and Toward (Post)Modernity.
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A Pocketful Of Passage

by Loraine Campbell

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 Based on the memories of Annie Hoge, whose father was a lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes for many years. Every summer until she was nine, Annie went with her siblings, and mother to live at Passage Island, where her father tended the signal that guided ships through a shipping lane between Passage Island and Isle Royale in Lake Superior.
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A History Of Wayne State University In Photographs

by Evelyn Aschenbrenner

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 Showcases founding, development, and growth of Wayne State University, Michigan's third largest public university, in historical photographs. This book traces the evolution of the university from those early schools into a modern research university with an extensive urban campus.
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The Amphibians And Reptiles Of Michigan - A Quaternary And Recent Faunal Adventure

by J. Holman

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 A comprehensive look at Michigan amphibians and reptiles from ancient times to present.
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To Keep The South Manitou Light

by Anna Egan Smucker

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 Set on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan during the fall of 1871, this is the fictional tale of a twelve-year-old girl named Jessie, whose family has been taking care of the lighthouse on the island for generations. Written for children between the ages of 8 and 12, it provides regional history along with everyday lessons.
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A Fashionable Tour Through The Great Lakes And Upper Mississippi - The 1852 Journal Of Juliette Starr Dana

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 In 1850s America it was extremely uncommon, if not unheard of, for a woman to travel without an escort for her own pleasure. This is the complete daily journal written by Juliette Star Dana, a 35-year-old wife and mother, during her nine-week "pleasure" tour over 3000 miles of the United States in the summer of 1852.
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Arab Detroit - From Margin To Mainstream

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 Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. This collection of memoirs, poetry, interviews and essays brings together the work of 25 contributors to paint a colourful portrait of Detroit's Arab community.
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